Idea 1 Family Tree:There are tiems when my career has gained more from looking for wisdom in my family tree than anything else that I had ever been taught. Ho about if you could extend the faily tree to anyone that family members were very close to (eg 1 degree of separtaion in www language - what might you be able to innovate or value multiply). And then if you found some peers who action learned the same way; what might you colaboratively trade. Would lifelong education start to chnage, and at what age could we start exploring people's diverse interactions for all they were communally worth?

Idea 2 When world is changing

Imagine the value of a map when revolutions happened in transport : the first ship captains once it was known the world is round; how did their logs web together as an atlas?

Or in communications: so now we have the printing press, what content shall we explore first?

Idea 3Who do you feel owns or governs the maps people love most? Is that an extraordinary power for good or evil? Is democracy dependent on how openly we map (what?)?

What should every 9 year old and up know about Tim Berners Lee? Vote whether you feel he is one of the 100 most trusted people all children should be taught about at school, as well as any other nominations you'd like us to rank

We have no idea if timbl would rate the compound risks of global abuse (eg lost transparency) of power so highly but other mathematicians and engineers from Einstein to Buckminster Fuller have warned how transforming to a much more connected system (in which every vilage is interlinked with every other around the globe) is a chnage challenge without precedence. Humanity has made messes of much smaller challengers. The inconvenient truth of globlisation system is that if nature or other climactic events compound vicious spins, there comes a stage where the loss of sustainability is irreversible. My father, a leading economics journalist, wrote about this in 1984 (partly as an updated tribute to George Orwell) so it may be that I am biassed but I hate to see people under-estimate compound risks just because they only see the precipice of compound arithmetic after falling over it.Here's some more from the childrens' Q&A which timbl values most

Q Why do you keep saying everything is so simple?A Well, because it is basically.

No, honestly...

I want you to know that you too can make new programs which create new fun ways of using computers and using the Internet.

I want you to realize that, if you can imagine a computer doing something, you can program a computer to do that.

Unbounded opportunity... limited only by your imagination.

And a couple of laws of physics.

Of course, what happens with computers is that you have a basic simple idea and then you have to add things on to it for practical reasons. So real-world computer programs can end up with a lot of stuff in them. If they are good, they are still simple inside.

So do you think the Web is basically been a good idea or a bad one?Some people point out that the Web can be used for all the wrong things. For downloading pictures of horrible, gruesome, violent or obscene things, or ways of making bombs which terrorists could use.

Other people say how their lives have been saved because they found out about the disease they had on the Web, and figured out how to cure it.

I think the main thing to remember is that any really powerful thing can be used for good or evil. Dynamite can be used to build tunnels or to make missiles. Engines can be put in ambulances or tanks. Nuclear power can be used for bombs or for electrical power.

So the what is made of the Web is up to us. You, me, and everyone else.

Here is my hope.

The Web is a tool for communicating.

With the Web, you can find out what other people mean. You can find out where they are coming from.

The Web can help people understand each other.

Think about most of the bad things that have happened between people in your life. Maybe most of them come down to one person not understanding another. Even wars.

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Questions or answers to it can be mailed in confidence to Chris at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - subject NINENOWOthers' Nations - childrens' books be PeaceCorps writersOur Current Vote Number 1 Social Project 30000YOUR IDEA IN INTERACTION

Tip if the first idea is too big- play it back to what youngers could do with a simpler version of it

CASE:

A) Anders and his youth (Sustainability Preneurs across Sweden) peers in uni town of Vaxjo had idea of why don't all university undergraduates (who wish to) sign a pledge 1 : if we ever become famous like Vaxjo Gold Medal Olympian Carolina Kruft (Universityof Stars 12) , we will adopt a Kluft-style mission in life. Knowing your social mission in life before fame begets you is the entrepreneur's truest way to be sure of sustaining it. University towns where high percentages of students sign the Vaxjo-type pledge are the best for future undergraduate education ones for sustainability alumni and world changers networks of social entrepreneurs

Emotional Literacy 1 -there is no evidence that preparing only for competitive exams gives 9 year olds time to be self-confident, to actualise communications and deep foci of trust, love, discover

Must visit web youthventure.org - reason: anything emerging from 28 years of Bill Drayton's college of 1500 social entrepreneurs is always worth getting involved with if you care deeply

Simply speaking, the net's most revolutionary change is that every 12th grader should be accomplished at finding her best mentors through life and helping others do likewise. Find benchmark schools that achieve the 21st Century's 5th R. The 4R's are no longer complete without the 5th. Virtual life's networks are not separable from real life's conversations where cafes and open spaces provide natural opportunities to explore the changes peer-group teams want to help co-create.

In the poorest third of the world, a vital learning is women have not been given enough communal investment, and help with sustainable development of what their community groups need to plant. We can guide you through microcredit and link you to many examples in Brazil or India if you want to map that. In the rich world, a parallel problem is helping youth invest in their future. We don't yet know how to map that but help that peers of 9's, 10's, 11's,12',s, and 13's will show us in time.

Project30000 provides us with a clearing house of inspiring projects for humanity across ages- why not assume 9-13 year olds are as interested in heroines and hero of humanity's deepest networking needs as 14 to 18's or any older age group?

The rich North does not wholly or systematically prepare children for cross-cultural harmonising or being their own media, conversation space - read eg Putnam Bowling Alone or Richard Florida on which places are on upcurves or down curves. It does not question the future history - read about collaboration and green as the next red, white & blue in Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat, a book on the collaborative global futures we build or destroy currently being bought by over a million Americans; compare with these future history scripts which leaders around the North hemisphere used to value debating in 1984IFIf you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a woman, my daughter!